It is only three metres across internally, built without mortar from stacked fieldstone, and it was never meant to last forever. That impermanence is, in a way, the point. This is a booley hut, a type of seasonal shelter associated with the old Irish practice of booleying, in which farming communities would drive their cattle to upland or summer pastures for several months each year, with younger members of the household staying out with the animals. The huts they built were rough and temporary by design, which makes the survival of this one, however ruinous, quietly remarkable.

The structure sits in the north-eastern sector of a larger enclosure, the kind of bounded space that would have organised the summer grazing landscape. A second possible booley hut lies roughly twelve metres to the south-west, just outside the enclosure boundary. Whether both shelters were in use at the same time, or represent different phases of activity on the same ground, is difficult to say. Booleying was practised widely across Ireland from at least the medieval period and persisted in some areas into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, leaving behind a scattered archaeology of small stone cells, enclosures, and trackways that rarely attract much attention. The drystone construction here, walls built by careful selection and placement of stone rather than any binding material, is typical of the tradition.

The hazel cover that now obscures the hut is both a complication and a kind of preservation. It makes the structure harder to read visually but has also shielded it from more aggressive disturbance. Anyone approaching the site should expect the stonework to be largely hidden within the scrub rather than presenting as a clear, legible ruin.